!YES!
Saturday, 19 September 2015
Friday, 18 September 2015
Thursday, 17 September 2015
RAT COLUMNS tonight, MARTIN NEWELL this Saturday and TERRY 7" released tomorrow!
Morning all!
Thank you all for coming to see Richard Dawson and Dope Body so far this
week, two tremendous concerts, I hope you agree! We’re not letting up though as
tonight we have a show at the Montague Arms for Australian jangle merchants RAT
COLUMNS, with H. GRIMACE and ATHENS in support, sounds 100% dreamy!
Then on Saturday afternoon we’re extremely lucky to have MARTIN NEWELL,
known for his spotless solo career alongside his lo-fi escapades with CLEANERS
FROM VENUS, visit London for the first time in decades. Taking place at St
Giles In The Fields, at the end of Denmark Street where Martin used to live, his
‘Golden Afternoon’ will involve a variety of performances on guitar and piano,
accompanied by yarns, poetry, cakes and tea. Looks set to be a very unique experience,
I cannot wait. More words to follow on both of those winning events, along with
a newly announced listing for the illustrious post-punk outfit MAXIMUM JOY
next month, I know! What a party that’ll be!
In other news, this time of a label hue, we’re releasing the debut 7”
from TERRY tomorrow, look out shops! Focusing on their own brand of
misshapen glam pop, Melbourne’s finest have written some extraordinarily catchy
songs, so its with pride that we finally get to share them with the world,
click the photo below to hear a track, you can also find the record for £4 in
our webshop here too: http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/
Thanks for reading!
\\\\\ TONIGHT
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RAT COLUMNS
H. GRIMACE
ATHENS
Thursday
17 September
Montague
Arms, 289 Queen's Rd, New Cross Gate, SE14 2PA
7.30pm | £6 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/325345
RAT COLUMNS is the project of
Perth native David West, who is also the man behind chic electronic project
Lace Curtain. Over the years he’s also played in Total Control and Rank/Xerox
too. Rat Columns make beautifully sad, subdued jangle punk, packed with kinetic
riffs, woozy synths and rhythms that sound like the landscape rushing by in a
rush of haze. West is a nimble extractor of momentary melodies, an ambient-pop
balladeer, a lover of unashamed shoegaze bliss-outs. After two LPs on Smart Guy
Records and R.I.P. Society Records, this year has seen West release a pair of
sublime 12” EPs on ADAGIO830 and Blackest Ever Black.
http://ratcolumns.tumblr.com/
H. GRIMACE are a dream punk trio from Homerton, London. Last year they released their debut 10”through their own 7 Eye imprint. Opening track ‘Lands of Gold and Green’ is a carefully constructed atmospheric track, typical of the bands mature approach to songwriting. Frontwoman Hannah Gledhill’s voice is showcased on this track her dusky vocals building to an unusual vocal harmony which soars above the subtly interlaced melodies developed during the tracks’ chorus.
https://h-grimace.bandcamp.com/
ATHENS play sparse, sometimes dissonant post-punk. Spiky, tightly wound interlocking guitar parts weave around acerbic vocals, thudding basslines and pounding drums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xp3f-9HZpc
H. GRIMACE are a dream punk trio from Homerton, London. Last year they released their debut 10”through their own 7 Eye imprint. Opening track ‘Lands of Gold and Green’ is a carefully constructed atmospheric track, typical of the bands mature approach to songwriting. Frontwoman Hannah Gledhill’s voice is showcased on this track her dusky vocals building to an unusual vocal harmony which soars above the subtly interlaced melodies developed during the tracks’ chorus.
https://h-grimace.bandcamp.com/
ATHENS play sparse, sometimes dissonant post-punk. Spiky, tightly wound interlocking guitar parts weave around acerbic vocals, thudding basslines and pounding drums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xp3f-9HZpc
\\\\\ SATURDAY AFTERNOON /////
MARTIN NEWELL -
‘THE GOLDEN AFTERNOON’
Three sets of
music, poetry and yarns!
Saturday 19 September
St Giles In The Fields, 60 St Giles High Street, Covent Garden, WC2H
8LG
MARTIN NEWELL is a purveyor of ingenious pop music.
His music is refracted from late 60s rock only shot through with invention from
the rough-and-ready explosion of DIY tape releases in 80s Britain. As a
songwriter, he’s right up there with Syd Barrett and Ray Davies, capturing a
peculiar Englishness that’s very much his own. It is argued that he has never
got the commercial success he deserved, but while this may or may not be true
he continues to make and sell good records with a degree of international
acclaim.
‘The Golden Afternoon’ promises a glorious spell of autumnal dazzle spent in the company of the inestimable Martin Newell (of Cleaners From Venus, Brotherhood Of Lizards, Stray Trolleys, Plod), featuring two sets of music on guitar and piano, poetry, tales about Denmark Street (where Martin lived for some time in the 80s when working in Tin Pan Alley), as well as ample tea vs cake provisions. This is an extremely rare occurrence as ‘The Golden Afternoon’ has never visited London before and Martin’s musical performances in London over the last few decades can be counted on one hand.
Martin started his career in music aged 19 when he joined an Essex glam-rock band called The Mighty Plod as a singer and gigged in rough clubs, pubs and colleges for the next two years. In his early twenties he joined a hard rock/prog band from Ipswich called Gypp and gigged in the UK as well as touring northern Germany several times. In 1979, he won his first record contract and shortly afterwards his first single ‘Young Jobless / Sylvie In Toytown’ was released, first on an indie label and then with Liberty Records. In the 1980s he formed the anarchic and wonderfully offbeat Cleaners From Venus, who after much defiance of music biz convention, signed to a London record company and began making proper records which were well reviewed and well-received. He began co-writing songs with Captain Sensible in 1986, a relationship which endures to some extent to this day. In 1989 he and his friend Nelson, now of New Model Army formed The Brotherhood of Lizards, were signed to make an album and proceeded to promote it, touring the record by bicycle. This led to many TV appearances and some notoriety and amusement in the media. In 1993, with XTC's Andy Partridge in the producer's chair Martin made what was to become his most successful album ‘The Greatest Living Englishman’.
Now in his mid-50s, with an abiding suspicion of commercial convention and arts authorities he remains in north Essex, where he continues to write poems, songs and books at a rate which sometimes surprises even the people who know him. His Selected Poems which came out in 2008 was given an enthusiastic and detailed foreword by Professor Germaine Greer. ‘This Little Ziggy’ his rock memoir is due to be re-published at time of writing. As poet-in-residence for The Sunday Express he writes a weekly pop-poem for the newspaper as well as occasional features for them. He is also a columnist for The East Anglian Daily Times for whom he writes a page The Joy of Essex each week.
After a thorough retrospective of Martin’s work with Cleaners From Venus, Captured Tracks have recently released a ‘best of’ his more recent work entitled ‘Teatime Assortment’. Martin has also re-recorded his classic song ‘Denmark Street’ in honour of this one -off show, holding a very central place in Martin’s heart, being where most of the Cleaners albums were breathed into life. Come see the ‘Wild Man of Wivenhoe’ wade through his waking memories of the West End, this will prove very special indeed!
http://www.martinnewell.co.uk/
‘The Golden Afternoon’ promises a glorious spell of autumnal dazzle spent in the company of the inestimable Martin Newell (of Cleaners From Venus, Brotherhood Of Lizards, Stray Trolleys, Plod), featuring two sets of music on guitar and piano, poetry, tales about Denmark Street (where Martin lived for some time in the 80s when working in Tin Pan Alley), as well as ample tea vs cake provisions. This is an extremely rare occurrence as ‘The Golden Afternoon’ has never visited London before and Martin’s musical performances in London over the last few decades can be counted on one hand.
Martin started his career in music aged 19 when he joined an Essex glam-rock band called The Mighty Plod as a singer and gigged in rough clubs, pubs and colleges for the next two years. In his early twenties he joined a hard rock/prog band from Ipswich called Gypp and gigged in the UK as well as touring northern Germany several times. In 1979, he won his first record contract and shortly afterwards his first single ‘Young Jobless / Sylvie In Toytown’ was released, first on an indie label and then with Liberty Records. In the 1980s he formed the anarchic and wonderfully offbeat Cleaners From Venus, who after much defiance of music biz convention, signed to a London record company and began making proper records which were well reviewed and well-received. He began co-writing songs with Captain Sensible in 1986, a relationship which endures to some extent to this day. In 1989 he and his friend Nelson, now of New Model Army formed The Brotherhood of Lizards, were signed to make an album and proceeded to promote it, touring the record by bicycle. This led to many TV appearances and some notoriety and amusement in the media. In 1993, with XTC's Andy Partridge in the producer's chair Martin made what was to become his most successful album ‘The Greatest Living Englishman’.
Now in his mid-50s, with an abiding suspicion of commercial convention and arts authorities he remains in north Essex, where he continues to write poems, songs and books at a rate which sometimes surprises even the people who know him. His Selected Poems which came out in 2008 was given an enthusiastic and detailed foreword by Professor Germaine Greer. ‘This Little Ziggy’ his rock memoir is due to be re-published at time of writing. As poet-in-residence for The Sunday Express he writes a weekly pop-poem for the newspaper as well as occasional features for them. He is also a columnist for The East Anglian Daily Times for whom he writes a page The Joy of Essex each week.
After a thorough retrospective of Martin’s work with Cleaners From Venus, Captured Tracks have recently released a ‘best of’ his more recent work entitled ‘Teatime Assortment’. Martin has also re-recorded his classic song ‘Denmark Street’ in honour of this one -off show, holding a very central place in Martin’s heart, being where most of the Cleaners albums were breathed into life. Come see the ‘Wild Man of Wivenhoe’ wade through his waking memories of the West End, this will prove very special indeed!
http://www.martinnewell.co.uk/
Your support is
always appreciated, looking forward to seeing you soon!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
x
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UPSET THE RHYTHM /////
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UPCOMING SHOWS \\\\\
RAT COLUMNS
H. GRIMACE
ATHENS
Thursday
17 September
Montague
Arms, 289 Queen's Rd, New Cross Gate, SE14 2PA
7.30pm | £6 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/325345
MARTIN NEWELL -
‘THE GOLDEN AFTERNOON’
Three sets of
music, poetry and yarns!
Saturday 19 September
St Giles In The Fields, 60 St Giles High Street, Covent Garden, WC2H
8LG
PC WORSHIP
HOUSEWIVES
TAR POOLING
Thursday
24 September
DIY
Space For London, Unit 1, 96-101 Ormside St, South Bermondsey, SE15 1TF
8pm
| £5 Members & Guests | Tickets on the door, become a member of DIYSFL
here: http://diyspaceforlondon.org/
TROPICAL TRASH
PERSPEX FLESH
APOSTILLE
Friday
25 September
DIY
Space For London, Unit 1, 96-101 Ormside St, South Bermondsey, SE15 1TF
8pm
| £5 Members & Guests | Tickets on the door, become a member of DIYSFL
here: http://diyspaceforlondon.org/
TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN LA
CASUAL SECT
CLAIRE
Sunday 27 September
In collaboration with Café OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | http://tinyurl.com/q26dany
Sunday 27 September
In collaboration with Café OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | http://tinyurl.com/q26dany
MATANA ROBERTS
‘Coin
Coin Chapter Three’
ERIC CHENAUX
Tuesday 6 October
OSLO, 1a Amhurst
Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL
AARON DILLOWAY
SISSY SPACEK
SISSY SPACEK
MOOR MOTHER GODDESS
Tuesday 13 October
Café OTO, 22 Ashwin
Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | http://tinyurl.com/nuz7eot
THE SPACE LADY
MELTING HEARTS
Wednesday 14 October
The Old Baths, 80 Eastway, Hackney Wick, London, E9 5JH
NORMIL
HAWAIIANS
Saturday 24 October
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
MAXIMUM JOY
JD TWITCH (OPTIMO / DJ Set)
BULLION (DJ Set)
Tuesday
27 October
The
Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm
| £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/333706
PROTOMARTYR
WITCHING WAVES
TENSE MEN
Monday 2 November
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/331014
WITCHING WAVES
TENSE MEN
Monday 2 November
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/331014
SHANNON AND THE CLAMS
THE CREEPING IVIES
Wednesday
11 November
OSLO, 1a Amhurst
Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL
MIKAL CRONIN
Tuesday
17 November
Scala,
275 Pentonville Road, King´s Cross, London, N1 9NL
CALVIN JOHNSON
Wednesday 18 November
The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, NW6 5BA
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/330306
Wednesday 18 November
The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, NW6 5BA
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/330306
Wednesday, 16 September 2015
MAXIMUM JOY are going to play in London next month!
Upset
The Rhythm presents…
MAXIMUM JOY
JD TWITCH (OPTIMO / DJ Set)
BULLION (DJ Set)
Tuesday
27 October
The
Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm
| £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/333706
Formed in 1980 in
Bristol from members of Glaxo Babies and The Pop Group – along with the then
17-year-old singer/clarinetist Janine Rainforth – Maximum Joy represented a
break from the dour frown of post-punk. They were a dance band first and foremost,
with a raucous disco pulse, blasts of brass and yelping, chanted vocals that
lived up to the band’s name. Maximum Joy combined myriad influences from the city's storied music
scene to inform a sound that reflected the political and social climate of
Thatcher-era Britain; funk, dub, disco, reggae and jazz all informed their
particular strain of post-punk. Their output was by turns moody and exuberant
but always highly danceable, carried by the ethereal strains of lead singer
Janine Rainforth.
The band's
output was confined to just a handful of releases: four singles preceded an LP
entitled “Station M.X.J.Y”, which was produced in part by legendary producer and
dub trailblazer Adrian Sherwood. In spite of this, the band helped lay the
foundations for the explosion of creativity and musical cross-pollination that
characterised Bristol during the eighties and nineties, and they have amassed a
cult following amongst clued-up producers and DJs that endures to this day.
Whereas they were once a firm favourite of John Peel's in their heyday, today
Maximum Joy are championed by the likes of Andrew Weatherall and Optimo. This
year the band have reunited to play at Bristol’s excellently curated Simple
Things festival and we’re extremely pleased to have them visit London to play
their first show here in 25 years around that date.
MATANA ROBERTS and ERIC CHENAUX performing in London next month!
Upset The Rhythm presents…
MATANA ROBERTS performing ‘Coin Coin Chapter Three’
ERIC CHENAUX
Tuesday 6 October
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL
7.30pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/323005
MATANA ROBERTS is an internationally renowned composer, band leader, saxophonist, sound experimentalist and mixed-media practitioner. Roberts works in many contexts and mediums, including improvisation, dance, poetry, and theater. She made two records as a core member of the Sticks And Stones quartet in the early 2000s and has gone on to release a diverse body of solo and ensemble work under her own name on Constellation and Central Control over the past decade. She is perhaps best known for her acclaimed ‘Coin Coin’ project, a multi-chapter work of “panoramic sound quilting” that aims to expose the mystical roots and channel the intuitive spirit-raising traditions of American creative expression while maintaining a deep and substantive engagement with narrativity, history, community and political expression within improvisatory musical structures. Constellation began documenting the ‘Coin Coin’ project in 2011 and has released the first three of a projected twelve album-length chapters to date.
The third chapter of ‘Coin Coin’, entitled ‘river run thee’ and released on Constellation on February 2014, finds Roberts constructing a sound art tapestry from field recordings, loop and effects pedals, and spoken word recitations, alongside her saxophone and singing voices. ‘Coin Coin Chapter Three: river run thee’ which Roberts will be performing at this concert, could arguably be considered first and foremost a vocal work, and notwithstanding its experimental and esoteric structure, a deeply narrative work as well. Not unlike 2013’s ‘Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile’, this most recent chapter unfolds as an uninterrupted album-length flow, this time in what Roberts calls “a fever dream” of sonic material, woven in surrealist fashion.
Matana Roberts from Sax Pax on Vimeo.
“At my artistic core, I am firmly dedicated to creating a unique and very personal experiential body of sound work that speaks to, and reminds people of all walks of life to reach, stand up, give voice, regardless of difference, created from mere labels of intellectual classification. In my ideal world the idea of ‘difference’, is an illusion designed only for the purpose of modern economic division and elitist intellectual hierarchy. Through my life’s work, I stand creatively in defiance.” Matana Roberts
Roberts has played with and alongside Rob Mazurek, Myra Melford, Vijay Iyer, Roscoe Mitchell and Greg Tate to name but a few and has also recorded as a guest musician with rock, pop and electronic groups as diverse as Godspeed You! Black Emperor, TV On The Radio, Savath & Savalas, Thee Silver Mt. Zion, and performance artists My Barbarian.
http://www.matanaroberts.com/
ERIC CHENAUX is an adventurous guitarist, singer and composer based in Paris. Having been an active player in Toronto experimental music circles with a host of group and collaborative works, Chenaux has more recently amassed a body of solo work across five albums on the Constellation label, centering around his dextrous, fried guitar playing as juxtaposed with a gorgeously lyrical vocal style. An ingenious recombinant use of traditional folk, psychedelic pop and consort music in earlier albums has over time evolved into a wholly uncategorisable form of balladry, shot through with a singular vernacular of guitar improvisation. 2015 has seen Eric release ‘Skullsplitter’, perhaps the strongest document yet of the exquisite, poetical songcraft he snake-charms from the roiling and changeable sonic environments bedded beneath. Alongside it has seen a blooming of his collaboration with Canadian filmmaker Eric Cazdyn, with a set of visual pieces made for each track on the album testament to their ongoing exploration of a fresh, symbiotic approach to music-video.
Eric Chenaux "Le Pouget" + "Skullsplitter" from Constellation Records on Vimeo.
He has performed with Pauline Oliveros, John Oswald, Michael Snow, Brodie West, Han Bennink, Michael Moore, Josephine Foster, Wilbert De Joode, Gareth Davis, Jacob Wren and Norberto Lobo among many. Eric also composes and performs music for film and contemporary dance, and collaborates on numerous sound installations with visual/sound artist Marla Hlady, including Smedaholmen Tourist (with Amplifiers) (2012) for The Thousand And One Birds festival in Norway. Together with Eric Cazdyn he undertook a two-week residency at The Cube Cinema in Bristol, UK, where they produced and performed the film Play The Cube in 2014.
http://cstrecords.com/eric-chenaux/
Sunday, 13 September 2015
Four shows this week! Richard Dawson, Dope Body, Rat Columns and Martin Newell in London!
Hello again!
I trust you’re having a brilliant weekend, in comes I with news of our
busy week to come. Tomorrow we’re extremely lucky to have RICHARD DAWSON
and ASIQ NARGILE comparing and contrasting their unique styles of
narrative songwriting. This rare head to head of English and Georgian folk
traditions will take place at Tufnell Park Dome tomorrow, tickets will be
available on the door from 7.30pm, with live music beginning an hour later.
Wednesday sees us head to the Old Blue Last for a night of gravity defying rawk
music from DOPE BODY and OLD FOREST. Whilst, RAT COLUMNS
are top of the menu for Thursday night at the Montague Arms, joined by H.
GRIMACE and ATHENS.
If that wasn’t already too much, we’re really
pushing the boat out on Saturday afternoon by welcoming the marvelous MARTIN
NEWELL, known for his immaculate solo career alongside his lo-fi escapades with
CLEANERS FROM VENUS, to London for the first time in decades. Taking
place at St Giles In The Fields, at the end of Denmark Street where Martin used
to live, the ‘Golden Afternoon’ will involve a variety of performances on
guitar and piano, accompanied by tales, poetry, cakes and tea (white chocolate
and pistachio cupcake anyone? Have you tried the liquorice brew? Well I never
knew that about Queen Matilda!). Now that’s what we call (a week of) music!
Read on for everything and more…
\\\\\ MONDAY /////
RICHARD DAWSON
ASIQ NARGILE
Monday 14
September
Tufnell Park Dome, 2A
Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL
7.30pm | £15 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/322823
7.30pm | £15 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/322823
A
very special union of two bold and visionary performers from very different
walks of song: Richard Dawson (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK) and Asiq Nargile
(Georgia) are bound together by the distinctive ways in which they channel the
ancients to transcend the everyday. Dawson and Nargile met at last October's
TUSK Festival in Newcastle, and the seeds were sown for a tour pairing these
questing musical spirits for a select run of double-bill occasions across the
UK.
RICHARD DAWSON is a skewed
troubadour at once charming and abrasive, rising up from the bed of the River
Tyne, his voice crumbles and soars being steeped in age-old balladry and
finely-chiseled observations of the mundane. His shambolically virtuosic guitar
playing stumbles from music-hall tune-smithery to spidery swatches of
noise-colour, swathed in amp static and teetering on the edge of feedback. His
songs are both chucklesome and tragic, rooted in a febrile imagination that
references worlds held dear and worlds unknown. Latest album Nothing Important,
out now on Weird World/Domino, has seen Dawson's song visions seep,
uncompromised and irrepressible, into wider consciousness, confirming him as an
unparalleled voice in today’s over-preened and manufactured music world.
http://www.richarddawson.net/
ASIQ NARGILE aka Nargile
Mehtiyeva was born in Tbilisi and is now based in the Borcali region of
Southern Georgia, she has been playing saz (long-neck lute) and singing since
the age of 15. Fluent in Azerbaijani, Georgian, and Russian, Nargile represents
the cosmopolitan heritage of old Tbilisi, a city once known as a meeting point for
multilingual aşıq bards who would travel through the region serving as conduits
for news, ideas, music and culture. A powerful solo performer, her vocal
recital of epic folk poetry is by turns ecstatic and deeply expressive, and is
interspersed with bursts of virtuosic, highly ornamented saz. Equally
comfortable performing moving laments or upbeat folk dances, Nargile is
currently the only female aşıq living and performing in the ethnic Azeri region
of Georgia, and has been teaching the art to new generations. Thanks to the
efforts of The Sayat Nova Project, a non-profit group aiming to help preserve
and promote the diverse musical dialects of the Caucasus, European audiences
can now experience the elusive, hypnotic beauty of Nargile's music for themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgAb87RFgpk
\\\\\ WEDNESDAY /////
DOPE BODY
OLD FOREST
Wednesday
16 September
Old
Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern St, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
8pm
| £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/318804
DOPE BODY are a primordial,
psych-addled noise rock beast from Baltimore! Born in 2008 out of the
dance-friendly confines of the city’s Wham City scene, this unclassifiable,
heavy group ventured out into the night to find more like-minds, and came back
boasting a spasm of styles and directions. Evolving from blasting three-piece
to blistering four-piece, Dope Body enjoy writing their own songs, touring
endlessly and pummelling basement parties with a gleeful, wide-eyed fanaticism
that the more reasonable among us might mistake for insanity (it ain’t entirely
so). Dope Body writhe under their own experiments, swinging from gutterish sludge-punk
to snake charmer-on-fire within the confines of a single tune. Rather than
comparing their ferocity to other contender, just know that Dope Body is punk
spelled upside-down and standing on its hands. 2012 saw their stunning album
'Natural History' come out on Drag City. Last year, the Baltimore quartet
returned with ‘Lifer’, which saw Dope Body taking on some full-frontal riffing
that dynamically ebbs and flows. From the trigger beats and scraping loops of
‘Casual’ to the Bowie-aping ‘Goon Line’ (think Fame re-tooled by Fugazi); from
the psyche sway of ‘Doom’ to the epic, closing ‘Void’, brand new album ‘Kunk’
posits Dope Body's unflinching world view into a set of agit observationals. An
essential companion piece to its excellent predecessor.
http://dopebody.tumblr.com/
OLD FOREST are purveyors of
sludge rock and massive Sebadoh and Dinosaur Junior fans. Writing steep and
steady with a sound you’d expect from three thirty somethings, Old Forest have
a release out on Italian Beach Babes.
https://oldforest.bandcamp.com/
\\\\\ THURSDAY
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RAT COLUMNS
H. GRIMACE
ATHENS
Thursday
17 September
Montague Arms,
289 Queen's Rd, New Cross Gate, SE14 2PA
7.30pm | £6 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/325345
RAT COLUMNS is the project of
Perth native David West, who is also the man behind chic electronic project
Lace Curtain. Over the years he’s also played in Total Control and Rank/Xerox
too. Rat Columns make beautifully sad, subdued jangle punk, packed with kinetic
riffs, woozy synths and rhythms that sound like the landscape rushing by in a
rush of haze. West is a nimble extractor of momentary melodies, an ambient-pop
balladeer, a lover of unashamed shoegaze bliss-outs. After two LPs on Smart Guy
Records and R.I.P. Society Records, this year has seen West release a pair of
sublime 12” EPs on ADAGIO830 and Blackest Ever Black.
http://ratcolumns.tumblr.com/
H. GRIMACE are a dream punk trio from Homerton, London. Last year they released their debut 10”through their own 7 Eye imprint. Opening track ‘Lands of Gold and Green’ is a carefully constructed atmospheric track, typical of the bands mature approach to songwriting. Frontwoman Hannah Gledhill’s voice is showcased on this track her dusky vocals building to an unusual vocal harmony which soars above the subtly interlaced melodies developed during the tracks’ chorus.
https://h-grimace.bandcamp.com/
ATHENS play sparse, sometimes dissonant post-punk. Spiky, tightly wound interlocking guitar parts weave around acerbic vocals, thudding basslines and pounding drums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xp3f-9HZpc
H. GRIMACE are a dream punk trio from Homerton, London. Last year they released their debut 10”through their own 7 Eye imprint. Opening track ‘Lands of Gold and Green’ is a carefully constructed atmospheric track, typical of the bands mature approach to songwriting. Frontwoman Hannah Gledhill’s voice is showcased on this track her dusky vocals building to an unusual vocal harmony which soars above the subtly interlaced melodies developed during the tracks’ chorus.
https://h-grimace.bandcamp.com/
ATHENS play sparse, sometimes dissonant post-punk. Spiky, tightly wound interlocking guitar parts weave around acerbic vocals, thudding basslines and pounding drums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xp3f-9HZpc
\\\\\ SATURDAY
AFTERNOON /////
MARTIN NEWELL -
‘THE GOLDEN AFTERNOON’
Three sets of
music, poetry and yarns!
Saturday 19 September
St Giles In The Fields, 60 St Giles High Street, Covent Garden, WC2H
8LG
MARTIN NEWELL is a
purveyor of ingenious pop music. His music is refracted from late 60s rock only
shot through with invention from the rough-and-ready explosion of DIY tape
releases in 80s Britain. As a songwriter, he’s right up there with Syd Barrett
and Ray Davies, capturing a peculiar Englishness that’s very much his own. It
is argued that he has never got the commercial success he deserved, but while
this may or may not be true he continues to make and sell good records with a
degree of international acclaim.
‘The Golden Afternoon’ promises a glorious spell of autumnal dazzle spent in the company of the inestimable Martin Newell (of Cleaners From Venus, Brotherhood Of Lizards, Stray Trolleys, Plod), featuring two sets of music on guitar and piano, poetry, tales about Denmark Street (where Martin lived for some time in the 80s when working in Tin Pan Alley), as well as ample tea vs cake provisions. This is an extremely rare occurrence as ‘The Golden Afternoon’ has never visited London before and Martin’s musical performances in London over the last few decades can be counted on one hand.
Martin started his career in music aged 19 when he joined an Essex glam-rock band called The Mighty Plod as a singer and gigged in rough clubs, pubs and colleges for the next two years. In his early twenties he joined a hard rock/prog band from Ispwich called Gypp and gigged in the UK as well as touring northern Germany several times. In 1979, he won his first record contract and shortly afterwards his first single ‘Young Jobless / Sylvie In Toytown’ was released, first on an indie label and then with Liberty Records. In the 1980s he formed the anarchic and wonderfully offbeat Cleaners From Venus, who after much defiance of music biz convention, signed to a London record company and began making proper records which were well reviewed and well-received. He began co-writing songs with Captain Sensible in 1986, a relationship which endures to some extent to this day. In 1989 he and his friend Nelson, now of New Model Army formed The Brotherhood of Lizards, were signed to make an album and proceeded to promote it, touring the record by bicycle. This led to many TV appearances and some notoriety and amusement in the media. In 1993, with XTC's Andy Partridge in the producer's chair Martin made what was to become his most successful album ‘The Greatest Living Englishman’.
Now in his mid-50s, with an abiding suspicion of commercial convention and arts authorities he remains in north Essex, where he continues to write poems, songs and books at a rate which sometimes surprises even the people who know him. His Selected Poems which came out in 2008 was given an enthusiastic and detailed foreword by Professor Germaine Greer. ‘This Little Ziggy’ his rock memoir is due to be re-published at time of writing. As poet-in-residence for The Sunday Express he writes a weekly pop-poem for the newspaper as well as occasional features for them. He is also a columnist for The East Anglian Daily Times for whom he writes a page The Joy of Essex each week.
After a thorough retrospective of Martin’s work with Cleaners From Venus, Captured Tracks have recently released a ‘best of’ his more recent work entitled ‘Teatime Assortment’. Martin has also re-recorded his classic song ‘Denmark Street’ in honour of this one -off show, holding a very central place in Martin’s heart, being where most of the Cleaners albums were breathed into life. Come see the ‘Wild Man of Wivenhoe’ wade through his waking memories of the West End, this will prove very special indeed!
http://www.martinnewell.co.uk/
‘The Golden Afternoon’ promises a glorious spell of autumnal dazzle spent in the company of the inestimable Martin Newell (of Cleaners From Venus, Brotherhood Of Lizards, Stray Trolleys, Plod), featuring two sets of music on guitar and piano, poetry, tales about Denmark Street (where Martin lived for some time in the 80s when working in Tin Pan Alley), as well as ample tea vs cake provisions. This is an extremely rare occurrence as ‘The Golden Afternoon’ has never visited London before and Martin’s musical performances in London over the last few decades can be counted on one hand.
Martin started his career in music aged 19 when he joined an Essex glam-rock band called The Mighty Plod as a singer and gigged in rough clubs, pubs and colleges for the next two years. In his early twenties he joined a hard rock/prog band from Ispwich called Gypp and gigged in the UK as well as touring northern Germany several times. In 1979, he won his first record contract and shortly afterwards his first single ‘Young Jobless / Sylvie In Toytown’ was released, first on an indie label and then with Liberty Records. In the 1980s he formed the anarchic and wonderfully offbeat Cleaners From Venus, who after much defiance of music biz convention, signed to a London record company and began making proper records which were well reviewed and well-received. He began co-writing songs with Captain Sensible in 1986, a relationship which endures to some extent to this day. In 1989 he and his friend Nelson, now of New Model Army formed The Brotherhood of Lizards, were signed to make an album and proceeded to promote it, touring the record by bicycle. This led to many TV appearances and some notoriety and amusement in the media. In 1993, with XTC's Andy Partridge in the producer's chair Martin made what was to become his most successful album ‘The Greatest Living Englishman’.
Now in his mid-50s, with an abiding suspicion of commercial convention and arts authorities he remains in north Essex, where he continues to write poems, songs and books at a rate which sometimes surprises even the people who know him. His Selected Poems which came out in 2008 was given an enthusiastic and detailed foreword by Professor Germaine Greer. ‘This Little Ziggy’ his rock memoir is due to be re-published at time of writing. As poet-in-residence for The Sunday Express he writes a weekly pop-poem for the newspaper as well as occasional features for them. He is also a columnist for The East Anglian Daily Times for whom he writes a page The Joy of Essex each week.
After a thorough retrospective of Martin’s work with Cleaners From Venus, Captured Tracks have recently released a ‘best of’ his more recent work entitled ‘Teatime Assortment’. Martin has also re-recorded his classic song ‘Denmark Street’ in honour of this one -off show, holding a very central place in Martin’s heart, being where most of the Cleaners albums were breathed into life. Come see the ‘Wild Man of Wivenhoe’ wade through his waking memories of the West End, this will prove very special indeed!
http://www.martinnewell.co.uk/
Thanks for reading,
and to all of you who came to see Stephen Steinbrink this week, see you soon
and most likely frequently!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
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UPSET THE RHYTHM /////
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UPCOMING SHOWS \\\\\
RICHARD DAWSON
ASIQ NARGILE
Monday 14
September
Tufnell Park Dome, 2A
Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, NW5 1HL
7.30pm | £15 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/322823
7.30pm | £15 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/322823
DOPE BODY
OLD FOREST
Wednesday
16 September
Old
Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern St, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
8pm
| £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/318804
RAT COLUMNS
H. GRIMACE
ATHENS
Thursday
17 September
Montague
Arms, 289 Queen's Rd, New Cross Gate, SE14 2PA
7.30pm | £6 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/325345
MARTIN NEWELL -
‘THE GOLDEN AFTERNOON’
Three sets of
music, poetry and yarns!
Saturday 19 September
St Giles In The Fields, 60 St Giles High Street, Covent Garden, WC2H
8LG
PC WORSHIP
HOUSEWIVES
TAR POOLING
Thursday
24 September
DIY
Space For London, Unit 1, 96-101 Ormside St, South Bermondsey, SE15 1TF
8pm
| £5 Members & Guests | Tickets on the door, become a member of DIYSFL
here: http://diyspaceforlondon.org/
TROPICAL TRASH
PERSPEX FLESH
APOSTILLE
Friday
25 September
DIY
Space For London, Unit 1, 96-101 Ormside St, South Bermondsey, SE15 1TF
8pm
| £5 Members & Guests | Tickets on the door, become a member of DIYSFL
here: http://diyspaceforlondon.org/
TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN LA
CASUAL SECT
CLAIRE
Sunday 27 September
In collaboration with Café OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | http://tinyurl.com/q26dany
Sunday 27 September
In collaboration with Café OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | http://tinyurl.com/q26dany
MATANA ROBERTS
‘Coin
Coin Chapter Three’
ERIC CHENAUX
Tuesday 6 October
OSLO, 1a Amhurst
Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL
AARON DILLOWAY
SISSY SPACEK
SISSY SPACEK
Tuesday 13 October
Café OTO, 22 Ashwin
Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | http://tinyurl.com/nuz7eot
THE SPACE LADY
MELTING HEARTS
Wednesday 14 October
The Old Baths, 80 Eastway, Hackney Wick, London, E9 5JH
NORMIL HAWAIIANS
Saturday 24 October
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
PROTOMARTYR
WITCHING WAVES
TENSE MEN
Monday 2 November
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/331014
WITCHING WAVES
TENSE MEN
Monday 2 November
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/331014
SHANNON AND THE CLAMS
THE CREEPING IVIES
Wednesday
11 November
OSLO, 1a Amhurst
Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL
MIKAL CRONIN
Tuesday
17 November
Scala,
275 Pentonville Road, King´s Cross, London, N1 9NL
7.30pm
| £13 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/325344
CALVIN JOHNSON
Wednesday 18 November
The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, NW6 5BA
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/330306
Wednesday 18 November
The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, NW6 5BA
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/330306
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